Legal Tools Used in China in the COVID-19 Emergency
A common feature in emergency times around the world is that more powers are employed by the government and individual rights are curtailed.
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Read more: Anti-COVID Measures Restricting Civil Liberties in Italy: Issues of Legality and Legitimacy Anti-COVID Measures Restricting Civil Liberties in Italy: Issues of Legality and Legitimacy
Since March 2020, people in Italy have experienced human rights restrictions that are unprecedented in the country’s republican history.
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Read more: Framing the Digital Symposium – Global Responses to COVID-19: Rights, Democracy, and the Law Framing the Digital Symposium – Global Responses to COVID-19: Rights, Democracy, and the Law
This digital symposium presents a pointillist portrait of the spectrum of rights-related measures adopted to stop the spread of COVID-19 around the world.
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Read more: Reopening the Country During COVID-19: Legal and Policy Issues Reopening the Country During COVID-19: Legal and Policy Issues
There is a pressing need for a set of principles to guide not just the imposing of COVID-type restrictions, but also relaxing or lifting them.
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Read more: The cat is now truly amongst the pigeons in the debate about the high cost of clinical negligence in the NHS The cat is now truly amongst the pigeons in the debate about the high cost of clinical negligence in the NHS
By John Tingle UK national and social media have been buzzing all last week about a letter sent on Monday 29th January 2018 by the NHS Confederation to the Justice Secretary and copying in the Secretary of State for Health.BBC news set the scene under the banner headline, ‘Curb rising NHS negligence pay-outs, health leaders…
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Read more: How the GOP Misread Public Anger over Obamacare How the GOP Misread Public Anger over Obamacare
By David Orentlicher In today’s New York Times, Kate Zernike reports on the lack of excitement among conservative activists for the Republican health care legislation. As Zernike observes, “President Trump and congressional leaders are getting little support from what were once the loudest anti-Obamacare voices.” Some observers think that activists are disappointed in the failure of…
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Read more: Housing Equity Week in Review Housing Equity Week in Review
By Temple University Center for Public Health Law Research It was a busy week in housing equity and the law! Here’s the news from the week of June 5-11, 2017: The National Low Income Housing Coalition published Out of Reach 2017, a comprehensive report and tool to assess housing affordability in the U.S. The tool…
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Read more: The Economics of Patient Safety: Adopting a Value-based Approach The Economics of Patient Safety: Adopting a Value-based Approach
By John Tingle The OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development) have recently published a report on the economics of patient safety.The report is in two main sections, section 1, the cost of failure and section 2, reducing harm effectively and efficiently. Section 1 focuses on a review of the literature in the area. The reports…
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Read more: The National Health Service (NHS) in England is standing on a burning platform? The National Health Service (NHS) in England is standing on a burning platform?
By John Tingle In the introduction to a new report on the state of acute hospitals in the NHS in England, the Chief Inspector of Hospitals, Professor Sir Mike Richards of the Care Quality Commission (CQC) controversially states: “The NHS stands on a burning platform — the model of acute care that worked well when…
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Read more: “That I Don’t Know”: The Uncertain Futures of Our Bodies in America “That I Don’t Know”: The Uncertain Futures of Our Bodies in America
By Wendy S. Salkin I. Our Bodies, Our Body Politic On March 30, at a town hall meeting in Green Bay, Wisconsin, an audience member asked then-presidential-hopeful Donald J. Trump: “[W]hat is your stance on women’s rights and their right to choose in their own reproductive health?” What followed was a lengthy back-and-forth with Chris Matthews….